This chapter is where the action slowly starts. See, I promised it would speed up soon.
The plane took off and Kristina looked out the window at the clouds, thinking how much they were like her life. All these great things would pile up until they became immense and wonderful, like the clouds, but then they would fall, like the rain. "Like Joey,"she thought. "I'm really going to miss him. I truly believed we had something going for us."
As the pilot announced that they had reached a constant altitude, Morgan and Kristina plugged in their headphones, but kept the volume. turned low so the could still hear one another. Morgan looked at Kristina, and sensing her mind was elsewhere, just held her hand. It was a few moments before Kristina realized, and she smiled at Morgan.
"Are you thinking about Joey?" Morgan asked when he felt she was ready to talk. "I heard what happened with Taylor and all. I heard the version you didn'ttell mom and dad."
Kristina looked down and said, "Well, Taylor deserved him. He'll probably blow her off, too. At least he did it to me before our relationship got anywhere."
"Dad was right though, Kris, you do deserve more than that. You know..." Morgan kept on talking and Kristina blocked him out. She just wanted Morgan to stop talking about it.
"He knows this will upset me, so why does he keep talking about it?" she wondered, fighting off the tears that were steadily coming to her eyes.
"Morgan, shut up!" Kristina said angrily. "Let's just listen to the CD," she added more calmly.
Morgan just nodded and turned up the volume on his headphones. The music played on, and Kristina listened to the familiar lyrics she'd heard so often with Joey.
With a little love, and some tenderness, we'll walk upon the water, we'll rise above the mess.
"That's what I need to do," Kristina told herself. "'Rise above the mess.' Joey's engaged now. I need to get over him and find other things to think about."
Lyrics are property of Hootie and the Blowfish.
How did you like it? Please review. I wasn't too sure about how I should put this chapter. I've decided Kristina is going to have some sort of disagreement with one of her family members, but I haven't decided who yet. It might be Morgan, but probably not. I just wanted to set stage in case I change my mind.
